Commitments and Contingencies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Commitments and Contingencies

12. Commitments and contingencies

Commitments

We have an agreement with Vergell Medical (formerly KTB Tumorforschungs GmbH, or KTB) (“Vergell”) for the Company’s exclusive license of patent rights held by Vergell for the worldwide development and commercialization of aldoxorubicin. Under the agreement, we must make payments to Vergell in the aggregate of $7.5 million upon meeting clinical and regulatory milestones up to and including the product’s second final marketing approval. We also have agreed to pay:

● commercially reasonable royalties based on a percentage of net sales (as defined in the agreement);

● a percentage of non-royalty sub-licensing income (as defined in the agreement); and

● milestones of $1 million for each additional final marketing approval that we obtain.

In the event that we must pay a third party in order to exercise our right to the intellectual property under the agreement, we will deduct a percentage of those payments from the royalties due Vergell, up to an agreed upon cap.

Contingencies

We applied the disclosure provisions of ASC 460, Guarantees (“ASC 460”) to our agreements that contain guarantees or indemnities by us. We provide (i) indemnifications of varying scope and size to certain investors and other parties for certain losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified party in connection with various types of third-party claims; and (ii) indemnifications of varying scope and size to officers and directors against third party claims arising from the services they provide to us.

During 2018, the Company resolved various shareholder derivative actions and a class action lawsuit that were pending against it. The Company has directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, which would be utilized in the defense of any such matters.

The Company may from time to time be subject to third-party claims or proceedings, include those claiming that we are infringing the proprietary rights of others or that we owe royalty, milestone or other payments to third parties. The Company evaluates developments in legal proceedings and other matters on a quarterly basis. The Company records accruals for loss contingencies to the extent that the Company concludes that it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the related loss can be reasonably estimated.